The report examined nearly 620,000 in-network inpatient admissions and all associated professional claims across 37 states and Washington, D.C., in 2016. It identified all out-of-network professional claims associated with an in-network admission and how they were distributed across medical specialties.
More than 16 percent of all out-of-network claims in the sample were for services performed by an anesthesiologist.
The share of out-of-network professional claims each specialty comprised:
1. Anesthesiology: 16.5 percent
2. Other physician: 14 percent
3. Primary care: 13 percent
4. Emergency medicine: 11 percent
5. Non-physician: 9 percent
6. Specialty unavailable: 8 percent
7. Radiology: 8 percent
8. Other medical: 6 percent
9. Independent lab: 5 percent
10. OB-GYN: 2 percent
The report also gave a breakdown of how often a claim for each specialty was out-of-network when linked to an in-network admission. Nearly 8 percent of in-network admissions with anesthesiology claims were billed as out-of-network.
Specialties that billed out-of-network at in-network facilities most often:
11. Independent lab: 22.1 percent
12. Emergency medicine: 12 percent
13. Specialty unavailable: 11.5 percent
14. Other physician: 9.4 percent
15. Anesthesiology: 7.9 percent
16. Non-physician: 7.6 percent
17. Miscellaneous: 7.6 percent
18. Other medical: 6.9 percent
19. ENT: 6.4 percent
20. Mental health/substance use: 6.3 percent
21. Primary care: 6 percent
22. Radiology: 4.8 percent
23. General surgery: 4.4 percent
24. Neurology: 3.9 percent
25. Physical/occupational therapy: 3.6 percent
26. Other surgical: 2.6 percent
27. Cardiovascular: 2.5 percent
28. Facility: 2 percent
29. Orthopedic surgery: 1.9 percent
30. Gastroenterology: 1.5 percent
31. Urology: 1.2 percent
32. OB-GYN: 1.1 percent
33. Oncology/hematology: 0.8 percent
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